Praying through Psalm 7

Take a few minutes and try praying personally through Psalm 7.

REFUGE

[1] O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, [2] lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

DISCIPLINE

[3] O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, [4] if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, [5] let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Seals

PROTECTION

[6] Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. [7] Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.

RIGHTEOUSNESS

[8] The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

JUSTICE

[9] Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous—you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

PLEASING OR DISPLEASING GOD

[10] My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. [11] God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

WRATH

[12] If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; [13] he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

THE WICKED

[14] Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. [15] He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. [16] His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

PRAISE

[17] I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.